Josh Long

Josh Long

Josh (@starbuxman) is the Spring Developer Advocate at Pivotal and a Java Champion. He's host of "A Bootiful Podcast" (https://soundcloud.com/a-bootiful-podcast), host of the "Spring Tips Videos" (http://bit.ly/spring-tips-playlist), co-author of 6+ books (http://joshlong.com/books.html), and instructor on 8+ Livelessons Training Videos (http://joshlong.com/livelessons.html)

Blog posts by Josh Long

A Bootiful Podcast: This Week in Spring (AI) - May 20th, 2025

Engineering | May 20, 2025 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this, I'm in sunny Stockholm, Sweden for the JForum #123 installment. This is, apparently, the first time the meetup is completely full up since before the pandemic, with more than 150 people in attendance! Tak, Stockholm!

Then, tomorrow, I'm off to beautiful Barcelona, Spain, for the amazing Spring I/O event. I'll be doing part of the keynote with Spring AI founder Dr. Mark Pollack; I'll be looking at Spring's rich integration with AOT and GraalVM with GraalVM founder Thomas Wuerthinger; and I'll be doing…

Your First Spring AI 1.0 Application

Engineering | May 20, 2025 | ...

Your First Spring AI 1.0 Application

by Dr. Mark Pollack, Christian Tsolov, and Josh Long

Hi, Spring fans! Spring AI is live on the Spring Initializr and everywhere fine bytes might be had. Ask your doctor if AI is right for you! It's an amazing time to be a Java and Spring developer. There's never been a better time to be a Java and Spring developer, and this is doubly true in this unique AI moment. You see, 90% of what people talk about when they talk about AI engineering is just integration with models, most of which have HTTP APIs. And most of what these models take is just human-language Strings. This is integration code, and what place for these integrations to exist than hanging off the side of your Spring-based workloads? The same workloads who business logic drives your organizations and which guard data that feeds your…

This Week in Spring - May 13th, 2025

Engineering | May 13, 2025 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! As I write this, I'm at the amazing Code Remix event in Miami (well, technically Tampa), Florida. I'll also be speaking at the Tampa JUG while I'm there, so look out! After that, I'll be headed back to Europe—a wee bit further north this time—to Stockholm for the amazing JForum event, where I'll be doing a much deeper dive into all things Spring.

You know what I'm most excited about? You don't have to look far to figure it out—just check out the ol' Spring Calendar. Spring AI releases on May 20th! And then, a few short and sweet days later—which, by the way, I'll be…

This Week in Spring - May 6th, 2025

Engineering | May 06, 2025 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! As I write this, I'm winging my way to lovely London, UK, for the amazing Devoxx UK event! I'll be looking at the wide and wonderful world of Springdom. Then, from there, it's off to Code Remix in Miami. I'll also be speaking at the Tampa JUG while I'm there, so look out! After that, I'll be headed back to Europe—a wee bit further north this time—to Stockholm for the amazing JForum event, where I'll be doing a much deeper dive into all things Spring.

You know what I'm most excited about? You don't have to look far to figure it out—just check out the ol' Spring Calendar. Spring…

This Week in Spring - April 29th, 2025

Releases | April 29, 2025 | ...

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